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By Thomas Gerbasi - John Scully loves boxing. He always has, at least since he read about Muhammad Ali as a teenager and then went about emulating “The Greatest.” So over the last three-plus decades, the 51-year-old has seen the good, the bad and the ugly of the sport, but he’s still here, a little over a week away from le...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The confidence of Teofimo Lopez isn’t obnoxious. It’s matter of fact, and if you don’t believe him, it’s almost confusing to him that you can’t see what he’s seeing. But the thing is, there are starting to be more believers than skeptics when it comes to the unbeaten lightweight, who looks to move to...
It’s the biggest week women’s boxing has ever seen, and there’s no way Alicia Napoleon wasn’t going to be a part of it, even if it meant fighting on a Wednesday night. “It’s definitely an awkward night to fight on,” laughed the WBA super middleweight champion, who will face Eva Bajic in an eight-round non-title bout at Sony Hall in NYC tonight.
By Thomas Gerbasi - Caleb Truax shouldn’t be this hungry. Not now. Not again. Sure, he’s got a huge fight coming up in his home state of Minnesota on Saturday against Peter Quillin, but he’s been to the mountaintop before. He has a world championship belt sitting in his house, the culmination of a life’s work, the silencer...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Andrew Cancio finally took a day off. No boxing, no Southern California Gas Company, just a day to celebrate what may have already taking the unofficial award as feel-good story of 2019. “It’s a long day today,” Cancio said Tuesday. “I’m getting the key to the city and getting my belt.” Born and rai...
By Thomas Gerbasi - Ace publicist Bernie Bahrmasel has a way of getting attention for his clients, and he caused a bit of a stir when he started attaching #ModernDayDuran to his tweets about 140-pound star Regis Prograis. Now that could be an albatross or a motivator for a fighter. Either way, it’s high prai...
By Thomas Gerbasi - The wounds are still open and emotions are as raw as ever for Chris Van Heerden. It’s less than three months after his father Daniel was murdered in South Africa in December, and while duty calls for the welterweight, who fights Mahonry Montes in Costa Mesa this Saturday, dad is never far fr...
Go west, young man. They didn’t tell the McKenna brothers, Aaron and Stevie, just how far west, but ultimately the lads from County Monaghan in Ireland found their way to Southern California to chase boxing glory far from the Emerald Isle.
By Thomas Gerbasi - It’s just a few days away from the biggest fight of 2019 thus far and the narrative has shifted. When it was announced that Errol Spence would defend his IBF welterweight title against IBF lightweight champion Mikey Garcia at AT&T Stadium in Texas, many worried for Garcia’s safety and wonde...
It was as random a meeting as you could think of, but when it was over, Weatta Frazier Collins had a mission, and being the daughter of Joe Frazier, she wasn’t going to stop until it was accomplished. “I met a child in North Philadelphia that lived right around the corner and he had no idea who Joe Frazier was and that ticked me off,” Frazier Collins said. “His legacy exists.”